*Blog post was started on June 3, 2021.

The Disgruntled's Real 1980's Men's Doubles Championship and the WWE Releases 2021 ver 3.0

Where to start when it comes to wrestling post "Double of Nothing"? Because there was another large show (Pardon me for avoiding the pun.), did WWE instinctively release talent?

I did not bother to read the Wrestling Inc article about King Baron Corbin responding to fans who thought it should have been him who was released rather than the larger or greater talents (Braun Strowman and Aleister Black to name one from each respective category). If you are going to sell the company, what is the new owner suppose to think of the decision to cut just one of these over talents instead of the one  WrestleTalk established as a talent-sucking mid-card vortex? On top of this, these cuts can definitely help out the competition at least in the short run.

With this kind of decision making, it easy to accept that the Disgruntled's Real World Women's Championship is not going over to WWE despite the best match of the biggest pay-per-view of the year. I am sorry, when you have 12 pay-per-views a year, your most important one should end with the babyface on top.

The 48th and Current Disgruntled's Real Women's World Champion: AEW World Champion Dr. Britt Baker D.M.D. (Won from Hikaru Shida on May 30, 2021).

Aside from her being known as the EST, where is the depth to Smackdown's Women's Champion Bianca Belair? Never mind the fact that Sasha Banks did not have any wars between winning that championship from Bayley and her classic at WrestleMania 37?

Every high profile match with Shida is a war. After the Thunder Rosa match gained the entire wrestling world's attention during the middle of a week, Baker was more than prepared for wars. Her preparedness goes all the way back to her pandemic battle with Shida in which she left as the evil equivalent to Becky Lynch.

Every sentence I have just written about Baker are answers. Every sentence that I wrote about Belair were questions. Belair is probably the stronger and her talent maybe at Baker's level, but poor decisions from WWE continue to make their competitor look wiser.

And it looks like they have booked their way into falling behind in whatever I think they have going for them. Who is Sheamus going to lose the United States title to? Ricochet, Humberto Carillo, Xavier Woods? Kofi Kingston is the only person who comes to mind that makes sense, but someone has to wrestle R-K-Bro. The belt is in a holding pattern being on a man who will not soon be in the primary title picture. It is making me regret my lack of foresight in never recognizing Darby Allin as the OCHO Champion.

The 152nd and Current DRCW OCHO Champion:

WWE United States Champion Sheamus. (Second Reign)

*The OCHO represents the Intercontinental (1), WWE United States (2),  The North American (3), Television (4), X Division (5), National (6), TNT (7), IWGP United States (8).*

AEW and NJPW make me further regret my presumption that Sheamus was the most proven commodity when it came to secondary champions. Jon Moxley has been bringing his United States' Championship back to relevance.

The 48th and Current DRCW Modern Poser Champion:

Universal Champion Roman Reigns (Second Reign).

 

The 90th and Current Disgruntled's Real Men's World Champion:

AAA Mega, TNA World, Impact World, and AEW World Champion Kenny Omega (Second Reign).

 

The 148th and Current Disgruntled's Real World Tag Team Champions:

The Young Bucks - Nick and Matt Jackson (Third Reign).

AEW's superior booking and unscripted promos brought us the first real threat to the Jackson Brothers claim to being the greatest tag team of all time. Eddie Kingston and Jon Moxley had the chemistry of a team, but that was based on history and their current anti-ELITE angle. We do not expect them to stick to being a tag team, but I think we would have all been fine if they ended the Bucks' reign. The Bucks could keep winning them back like Express was in their name. It is just a testament to the long term planning that AEW has and that WWE lacks to convince us that we would be cool with this change.

The tag team division in AEW remaining in its current form brings me to a suggestion made my Ringer writer and author David Shoemaker who suggested that a tag team wrestling division be created for these hodge podge units like Moxley and Kingston. This is something WWE might want to jump on just to differentiate their tag team product from AEW's. It might allow them to further downplay the importance of team wrestling, so it would serve both the fans and Vince McMahon's prerogative. All we need is a champion.

The Current/Tentative DRCW Men's Doubles World Championship: Raw Tag Team Champions AJ Styles and Omos.

As the title history is established, they may not be the combination to be the champs to beat. Still, they defeated whom WWE is trying to make us believe is the greatest tag team in pro-wrestling at WrestleMania 37 and establish a new and very green talent in Omos. It honestly further elevates the New Day to have done this. And it shows that Cody Rhodes is getting lazy when it comes to creating new superstars. After exposing Anthony Ogogo, it make me wonder if AEW should be developing talent now that they are the destination for the best/most over talents in the United States.

I wanted to start this title history, like all of the title histories, at the first closed circuit wrestling event (the basis of pay-per-view) Starrcade 1983. This would have placed Soul Patrol in this spot because of their single reign and their documented lack of chemistry. With AWA's Ken Patera and Jerry Blackwell are the first "Real Tag Team Champions", I think the tag team wrestling was not strong enough at this time to warrant separate championships. AWA had the best division, but no real tag teams. It was not until the Road Warriors hit the scene that two individual wrestlers as a tag team were most noticeable. Thus this title history starts when the Road Warriors defeated Baron Von Raschke and the Crusher.

@museilluminatus - Pintereset

The 1st DRCW Gnarly** Men's Doubles World Champions:

NWA World Tag Team Champions - Don Kernodle and Ivan Koloff (8/25/84 to 10/20/84)

 

The 2nd DRCW Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

NWA World Tag Team Champions - Dusty Rhodes and Manny Fernandez (10/20/1984 - 3/18/1985)

 

The 3rd DRCW Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

WWF World Tag Team Champions - Mike Rotundo and Barry Windham (3/18/85 to 3/31/85)

 

The US Express may have been thrown together for some drama when it came to WrestleMania. They just seemed like the more patriotic team to put up against Freddie Blassie's foreign menace.

The 4th DRCW Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

WWF World Tag Team Champions - The Iron Sheik and Nikolai Volkoff (3/31/85 to 6/17/85)

 

The 5th DRCW Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

WWF World Tag Team Champions - Mike Rotundo (2) and Barry Windham (2) (6/17/85 to 8/24/85)

 

The 6th DRCW Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

WWF World Tag Team Champions - Brutus Beefcake and Greg Valentine (8/24/1985 to 4/7/1986)

 

I guess there was a lack of face teams at the time. It was also the time before Vince McMahon insisted every tag team had a gimmick.

The 7th DRCW Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

AWA World Tag Team Champions - Scott Hall and Curt Hennig (4/7/86 to 5/17/86)

It almost feels like that this title should be abandoned until Manny Fernandez and Rick Rude legitimately won the NWA championship, but if Pat Patterson got the IC title this way, why dismiss fake wins. WWF is about to hit their first modern tag team renascence with the British Bulldogs and the Hart Foundation. The NWA has all of the best Expresses.

The 8th DRCW Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions: 

AWA World Tag Team Champions - Doug Somers and Buddy Rose (5/17/1986 to 1/27/1987)

 

The 9th DRCW Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

NWA World Tag Team Champions - Rick Rude and Manny Fernandez (1/27/87 to 5/26/87)

 

The Midnight Rockers gave the AWA tag division a brief moment of hope.

The 10th DRCW Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

AWA World Tag Team Champions - Soldat Ustinov and Boris Zhukov or Doug Somers (2)

(5/26/87 to 10/11/87)

The 11th DRCW Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

AWA World Tag Team Champions - Jerry Lawler and Bill Dundee (10/11/87 to 10/19/87)

The 12th DRCW Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

AWA World Tag Team Champions - Dr. D aka Carl Styles and Hector Guerrero

(10/19/87 to 10/26/87)

The 13th DRCW Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

AWA World Tag Team Champions - Jerry Lawler (2) and Bill Dundee (2) (10/26/87 to 10/30/87)

 

The 14th DRCW Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

WWF World Tag Team Champions - Tito Santana and Rick Martel (10/30/1987 to 3/27/1988)

Strike Force as they were called was an excuse for a to give air time to a song on "Piledriver". Both of the performers are famous for being thrown into tag team championships when needed.

The 15th DRCW Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

NWA World Tag Team Champions - Lex Luger and Barry Windam (3) (3/27/88 to 4/20/88)

 

The 16th DRCW Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions: 

AWA World Tag Team Champions - Paul Diamond and Pat Tanaka (4/20/88 to 3/25/89)

 

I know Badd Company reunited in Eastern Championship Wrestling, but Tanaka was synonymous with the Orient Express in WWF.

The 17th DRCW Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

AWA World Tag Team Champions - Ken Patera and Brad Rheingans (3/25/89 to 9/18/89)

 

Another team with a name, The Olympians, but that is a call back to their resume. The title ended up being vacated due to a legitimate injury to Patera. Due to the vacancy and Demolition and The Fabulous Freebirds being our other options, I think we may as well end this lineage and start it back up in 1990 with the Colossal Connection.

**I figured that it would be better to shorten the 1980's to ancient slang that is not used. Two syllables seemed best.**